The Birthday Party

Meg and Petey live in a small seaside boarding house with their sole boarder, a peculiar fellow by the name of Stanley. He claims to be a concert pianist although seems only to have played a single concert. When two strangers arrive – apparently at the invitation of Petey - Meg naively accommodates them, and decides to arrange a birthday party for Stanley that night. The sleek Goldberg and his musclebound henchman McCann take the opportunity to play cruel games with Stanley as the party descends into a nightmarish evening of near psychotic torture. Harold Pinter’s brilliantly disturbing comedy of menace and mayhem has become a dramatic classic across the globe